Windows Azure Service Bus - A general question

Question

Lets say I have a Silverlight application that currently talks to a WebRole in Windows Azure. Is the Silverlight application also able to directly talk to the service bus without a "controller" component which takes the commands coming from the client and routes them to the worker roles in the Service bus?

Answer 1

The Silverlight application is able to communicate with the Service Bus directly as stated here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/features/servicebus

Support of REST and HTTP Access from non-.NET platforms

But I'm not sure you want to let your Silverlight app do that, because on the very same page there is the price list for concurrent connections starting at 3.99$ per connection.

EDIT:

As Clemens Vasters commented below, there are changes to the price model for connections. More info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh667438.aspx#BKMK_SBv2FAQ2_1

Answer 2

服务总线示例包括有关如何在 Silverlight 应用程序中使用 SB 的示例。